The ELEMATIC 1000 WA-i in operation at the Paal booth is a horizontal tray and hood packing system featuring 8-minute changeovers for up to 10 different formats. A large, low height blank magazine allows for easy reloading. Blank feeding and flap folders are both servo-driven.

Theegarten-Pactec is well known for their incredibly high speed candy wrapping systems. But how to feed a shaped chocolate that must be oriented into the wrapper at speeds of 300 to 400 pieces per minute?

For Managing Director Egbert Rőhm, the answer was robotics. At interpack, the company demonstrated a robotic orientation system utilizing an ELAU P3 robot arm. ELAU allowed Theegarten-Pactec to embed their own robotic solution as part of their machine instead of an add-on third party robot with a separate, proprietary ‘black box’ controller.

Kallfass ran its Servo Jet 400 side sealing shrink wrap machine at interpack. Used in many different applications for shrink packaging and mailing, the Servo Jet leverages the precision of ELAU automation technology to use less film and form perfect seams..

According to North American vp Bodo Goepfert, the Servo Jet uses between 15% to 25% less film than machines they are replacing and competitive machinery on the market today.

Consumers’ expectations for high end cosmetics and pharmaceuticals call for the use of premium cartons and perfect overwraps.

Pester Pac’s new PEWO-fold C120 meets this requirement hands-down. With an output rate of 120 cartons per minute regardless of carton size and changeovers in only 5 to 10 minutes with minimal change parts, luxury packaging becomes very practical.

Willi Rassl, product and development manager, explains “The unique selling point…is the gentle way in which products are fed in despite the high speed….Altogether, 12 ELAU servo motors are responsible for a continuous, gentle product flow on a single level.”

Canada’s Nuspark Engineering introduced its compact NTL-50 delta robotic top-loading case packing system to Europe, embracing the same ELAU technology that dominates the European market.

Using ELAU’s robotic solution that integrates robot control as a software object in the main machine control program running on the same controller as the rest of the machine, Nuspark achieves up to 50 picks per minute with payloads up to 40 kg.

By hanging a second delta robot arm in the same machine frame, the case packer handles an amazing 100 ppm in the same footprint and same electrical cabinet size.

‘Experience innovation’ was written on the wall of ELAU’s interpack booth. In fact, the innovation seemed to be wherever you turned. And with nearly 240 ELAU-enabled packaging machines on display, this was literally true around some corners.

For example, machinery builders were employing ELAU’s robotic systems and servo modules in force. What is the significance of this trend? PMMI has published research stating that within five years, some 50% of packaging machines will employ robotics.

Rather than add a third party robot and proprietary controller over the top of a machine, ELAU technology streamlines and tightly synchronizes the robotic function in the packaging process.

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